How was everyone’s celebration? Hopefully it was great! RaptorCow and the show have some huge goals for 2016 and we’re excited to bring them into fruition. We’re launching the podcast on YouTube on our jtexgamecast channel. Stay tuned for updates! RaptorCow is starting a video show, bringing you cool content on games, let’s plays, highlights of game devs and unique projects in the industry. We’re creating gaming conferences to bring gamers and developers together. AAAAANNNDRaptorCow is planning on the development and design of its first game project! Designed by yours truly (Ted Edwards)! We’re very excited As you can see TONS to look forward to this year What’s this “Best Of Recap” thing we’re talking about? Ok every 15 episodes or so we plan on doing a recap or best of show that highlights our guests, the awesome people in the industry and their contributions, as well as great moments on the show. Basically we do it because it’s really fun. This is the first volume which recaps episodes 0, where jon and I talk about ourselves and you get to know us, all the way to episode 12 last week. We’re going to highlight 1. John and I and the beginning 2. We talk football a lot – Great football talk moments 3. Interviews – We have a variety of guests from different backgrounds all working towards success in the gaming industry 4. The Best Boss Battles – **SPOILERS** 5. A couple of the best topics of the week 6. Some Random funny moments

Merry Christmas Eve!!! The long wait is over and Santa is loading up his sleigh! Hope you’ve been good so he can bring you all the games and accessories your little heart desires! In the meantime we sit down with Mitchell Cole, CEO and Founder of FANatics Gaming to chat about his reviews website and gaming discount service. We also talk about Christmas (of course), blueberry french toast, Star Wars, BBQ!!!, holiday wish lists, our letters to video game Santa, Rick Fox, The Mark Cuban Esports League, Canada sucking? , and the new Kojimi Productions. Dr. Robotnik is in the house to challenge Mitch during our boss battle. Can Mitch throw down and out wit this evil Genius?

Christmas is approaching fast and video games are still a thing! We welcome guest Tim Porter, technical artist and gaming generalist to the show to talk about, Star Wars, princess Leia, Energy drink social media beef, Parappa the Rapper, star citizen (as usual), Nintendo 3rd party support, cos-play, Arnold Schwarzenegger and much more! Our topic of the week shines some light on new ways to control video games in the future. Does Tim have what it takes to escape the clutches of our Boss of the week – Dracula from the Castlevania series?

The gaming industry managed to squeeze in two more large events this weekend with The Game Awards and PlayStation Experience. We go over a few highlights of the shows with our guest Charlie Trinh, former developer for Disney Interactive and founder of Game School. Who won game of the year at The Game awards? What’s the word on the Final Fantasy VII remake coming out of PSX? What got you covered on this very special “Patriots-2-losses-in-a-row” holiday! We also discuss pork chops, working out in VR, being a boring live streamer, partying in the NFL, Ted’s struggle with all the new games, Final Fantasy VII, and our topic of this week: Unreal vs. Unity in VR. Wario makes an appearance as boss of the week in the boss battle – can Charlie show him who the real tough guy is?

Curse you Black Friday and Cyber Monday! We are so happy that mess is over! But hey big things are coming this week. The Game Awards are happening and Ted is going! We have lots to talk about with our guest Jimmy Vosler of Troll Bridge games a real life Bradley Cooper look alike! Of course we discuss an epic Broncos victory over the disgusting patriots, how much cooler superman is than batman, Black Friday/cyber Monday, THE GAME AWARDS, THE GAME AWARDS, THE GAME AWARDS, Gamification in life, Paintball, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Can Jimmy short circuit our boss of the week, GlaDos, the deranged A.I. from Portal in the boss battle?

Oh how we love Thanksgiving. By far the best holiday of the year! What other day do you get an excuse to eat yourself sick and lounge around watching football and playing video games! This week’s guest is Chase Bethea, Game composer and sound engineer. We talk Thanksgiving day strategy using spreadsheets and analytics, blizzard’s new branding, Mark Cuban thinks esports are legit and is F***ing psyched, creating adult video game nostalgia, how to hand create sounds in a video game, our favorite thanks giving stories, tips on how to play open world games, bowel movements in Target as well how many times you should go #2 in a day….wait what? Yes, did we mention this is a show LOOSLEY about video games? After all that talk and laughter can Chase stop the laughter of the boss this week, the Joker?

Thanksgiving is around the corner, the Fallout is in the air, the Starcraft and Star Wars are shining brightly and Officer Peterson of the Burbank Police Department, you suck! Jon put it eloquently, “So he’s a hallway monitor!” Ok we feel better haha! Now that we got that out of our system like every podcast or other video game medium, we have to talk about Fallout 4 and all the charming and/or maddening jenkiness it brings this holiday gaming season. We have our first international guest from the other side of the pond, Justin French of Dream Harvest Games and explore his new game failure. We also discuss, moving pains, a tiny bit of broncos turmoil, hamburgers, Ted not being pretty enough, Mark Cuban, Ronda Rousey, and the EA/Madden curse. Can our guest use his skills to squash our boss of the week the Queen of Blades from Starcraft II?

The Broncos lost last week and Jon is sad but there’s no time to be upset! Games are out! Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void are here and you can play them! Our guest this week is Ed Moore, UX/UI designer and veteran of the game development industry. We talk about eye poking cheap shots in football, Bruno mars, tortilla Chips, ice cream, Pulp fiction, indieapocalypse, and of course Lil’ John!...YEAH!!...OK!!!...WHAT!! This week’s boss is Zeus from the God of War franchise. Does Ed have the skills to resist the all mighty power and take down Zeus?

Halloween is behind us and video games season is now in full affect. We are joined by gaming music composer Alex Cote as he discusses, video game music and why electronic synths rock! Also in the show: Ted gets caught with his pants down…literally, League of legends has a huge update coming, how to hide your Halloween candy, the broncos win again, the struggle of woman in games, and a lot video game music stuff. Alex is a smart guy but this week’s boss, SUB ZERO presents his toughest challenge to date!....well figuratively….at least the toughest challenge he will face on this episode.

Fallout 4, Halo 5, Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate - Oh my! It’s that time of year and video games are here! We welcome the whole crew to the show including the Fro Yo Bros, Mike and Rob Conrad to take part in our to our Halloween edition…ok we only talked about costumes a little bit but it was cool. Learn more about Mike (our production assistant) and Rob (audio engineer) as they talk about growing up as gamers, what’s hot on the market today and our upcoming Twitch and YouTube shows! Can they band together and take down this week’s boss - Liquid Snake from the Metal Gear series? Listen find out!